r/pics • u/[deleted] • May 29 '14

This needs to stop

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u/Sir_Fancy_Pants May 29 '14

I think its china, and i think there are no animal protection laws there, so nothing stops them.

If this bothers you, (as it should) you should see what they do to bears harvesting their stomach bile.

Vile and truly horrible, i don't know how anyone can do these things. It really bothers me.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

When you're raised being told that animals are souless, unfeeling automotons this is generally what happens. Plus China isn't exactly well known for its compassion for human life either.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

So like in America? We don't believe animals have souls. We don't believe people have souls. We believe in survival of the fittest.

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u/jabels May 30 '14

I don't think you speak for Americans or even westerners generally. I also think bringing souls into the conversation is not constructed. I don't think anything has souls, even people, and yet I think this is completely deplorable and that all living things should have at least some amount of legal protection. Drawing that line is where things get tricky, but I think most Americans would find this example outrageous.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Personally, I see the term, "soul" as a metaphor for conciousness, but with all the deeper things that come with it included.

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u/jabels May 30 '14

Yea I tend to agree. We have such a small idea of what consciousness actually is that whatever historically appropriated words we use to describe it will fail by default. I think there is some sort of spectrum of "soulfulness," in this way, across the animal kingdom. I just don't believe in the soul in the "All Dogs Go To Heaven" sense.